Background Information: Overviews of Research
Oxford Bibliographies Online in Childhood Studies, Social Work, and Psychology include overviews of research, with annotated bibliographies including scholarly books, journals, and research.
- Adoption
- Aggression
- Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive
- Best Interest of the Child
- Child Maltreatment (Childhood Studies)
- Child Maltreatment (Public Health)
- Child Poverty, Rights, and Well-Being
- Child Welfare
- Child Welfare Law in the United States
- Children and Social Policy
- Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Children's Rights
- Coping Processes
- Development, Prenatal
- Developmental Psychology
- Drugs and Behavior
- Education for Children with Autism
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Forensic Social Work
- Foster Care
- Foundlings and Abandoned Children
- History of Childhood in America
- Knowledge Development in Childhood
- Mandated/Non-Voluntary Clients
- Mental Illness: Children
- Orphans
- Parenting Stress
- Refugee and Displaced Children
- Repressed Memories
- Risk Assessment in Child Protection
- Young Carers
(Children as Caregivers)
About this guide
Child Welfare resources include databases and indexes of journals, background resources i.e. reference works, such as Oxford Bibliographies Online, with its overview essays and bibliographies.
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Reference Works
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Encyclopedia of Social WorkBackground and bibliographies on topics related to social work, social policy, and related fields.
